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'Direct PCR' optimization yields a rapid, cost-effective, nondestructive and efficient method for obtaining DNA barcodes without DNA extraction

scientific article

A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae)

scientific article

A DNA barcode library for 5,200 German flies and midges (Insecta: Diptera) and its implications for metabarcoding-based biomonitoring

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

A DNA barcode library for Germany's mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera).

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A SYNOPSIS OF THE DYTISCIDAE OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR, WITH DESCRIPTION OF RHANTUS GALAPAGOENSIS SP.NOV. (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE)

scientific article published in April 1993

A Study of the Larva of Carabdytes upin Balke, Hendrich and Wewalka (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae), with Comments on the Phylogeny of the Colymbetinae

A comprehensive DNA barcode database for Central European beetles with a focus on Germany: adding more than 3500 identified species to BOLD.

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A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences ⬇️

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A molecular phylogeny of Alpine subterranean Trechini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

scientific article (publication date: 13 November 2013)

A new Colombian species of Liodessus diving beetles from the Páramo de Sumapaz (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A new genus and two new species of Southeast Asian Bidessini as well as new synonyms for Oceanian species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

scientific article (publication date: 30 January 2017)

A new interstitial species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia provides a scenario for the transition of epigean to stygobitic life (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

A new species of Agaporomorphus Zimmermann, 1921 from Peru (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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A new species of Clypeodytes Régimbart, 1894 from China (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae: Bidessini) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2022

A new species of Rhantus diving beetles from the wetlands of the City of Bogota and surroundings (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

A new species of copelatus erichson, 1832 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) from the adelbert range of Papua New Guinea ⬇️

A new species of the Australian genus Necterosoma from Timor (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporini) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2013

A new species of the terrestrial water beetle genus Geodessus Brancucci (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), sieved from leaf litter in Southern India

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A new species ofHaliplusLatreille, 1802 from Cuba (Coleoptera: Haliplidae)

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

A new, widely distributed species of the Exocelina ekari-group from West Papua (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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A review of Copelatus diving beetles from the Solomon Islands, reporting the discovery of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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A review of Peruvian diving beetles of the genus Hydaticus Leach, 1817, with description of Hydaticus (Prodaticus) panguana sp. nov. and notes on other Neotropical species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

A simultaneous journal / wiki publication and dissemination of a new species description: Neobidessodes darwiniensis sp. n. from northern Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ⬇️

scientific article published on February 3, 2011

A subterranean species of Exocelina diving beetle from the Malay Peninsula filling a 4,000 km distribution gap between Melanesia and southern China

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Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineation

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Ancient associations of aquatic beetles and tank bromeliads in the Neotropical forest canopy

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2008)

Anisomeriini diving beetles-an Atlantic-Pacific Island disjunction on Tristan da Cunha and Robinson Crusoe Island, Juan Fernández?

scientific article published in 2014

Australasian sky islands act as a diversity pump facilitating peripheral speciation and complex reversal from narrow endemic to widespread ecological supertramp

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

Beyond barcodes: complex DNA taxonomy of a South Pacific Island radiation

scientific article published in April 2006

Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history 'metacollection'

scientific article (publication date: 17 September 2013)

Borneodessus zetteli kalimantanensis Balke, Hendrich, Mazzoldi & Biström, 2002: first record of a rare and little-known diving beetle from Sarawak (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Bunites distigma (Brullé, 1837): discovery of the second- and third-instar larvae and phylogenetic relationships within the Colymbetinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 13 October 2023

Burmese amber reveals a new stem lineage of whirligig beetle (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) based on the larval stage

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Capelatus prykeigen. et sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) - a phylogenetically isolated diving beetle from the Western Cape of South Africa

scholarly article by DAVID T. BILTON published in April 2015

Clypeodytes geiseri sp. n., an enigmatic Bidessini from Laos (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Comparative molecular species delimitation in the charismatic Nawab butterflies (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae, Polyura).

scientific article

Copelatus sibelaemontis sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Moluccas with generic assignment based on morphology and DNA sequence data ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Correction: Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve the phylogeny of Australasian smurf-weevils

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

DNA Barcoding for Community Ecology - How to Tackle a Hyperdiverse, Mostly Undescribed Melanesian Fauna ⬇️

scientific article published on January 13, 2012

DNA barcoding data release for Coleoptera from the Gunung Halimun canopy fogging workpackage of the Indonesian Biodiversity Information System (IndoBioSys) project

scientific article published in 2019

DNA barcoding data release for the Phoridae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Halimun-Salak National Park (Java, Indonesia)

scientific article published on 4 July 2023

DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers

scientific article published in October 2005

DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections ⬇️

scientific article published on July 20, 2012

Deep cox1 divergence and hyperdiversity of Trigonopterus weevils in a New Guinea mountain range (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

scholarly article by Alexander Riedel published in January 2010

Description of 23 new species of the Exocelinaekari-group from New Guinea, with a key to all representatives of the species group (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article

Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

scientific article (publication date: 9 November 2016)

Description of the second and third instars of Aspidytes wrasei Balke, Ribera & Beutel, 2003, with comments on the identification of larvae of Aspidytes Ribera, Beutel, Balke & Vogler, 2002 (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae), and phylogenetic considerations

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2014)

Description of two new species of the Exocelina broschii-group from Papua New Guinea, with revision and key to all representatives of this species group (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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Descriptions of two new species and one new subspecies from the Exocelina okbapensis-group, and notes on the E. aipo-group (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Determining species boundaries in a world full of rarity: singletons, species delimitation methods

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Die Gattung Rhantus Dejean : IV. Taxonomie und Faunistik verschiedener paläarktischer und nearktischer Spezies (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) ⬇️

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Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2002)

Discovery of the Australian diving beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922) in New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

scientific article published in 2021

Discovery of the diving beetle Laccornis oblongus (Stephens, 1835) in Bavaria, southern Germany (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Laccornini)

scientific article published in 2022

DiversityScanner: Robotic discovery of small invertebrates with machine learning methods

DiversityScanner: Robotic handling of small invertebrates with machine learning methods

scientific article published in 2021

Diving Beetles of the Genus Rhantus in Costa Rica: Taxonomy and Biogeography, with Notes on South American Species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in December 2002

Diving beetles of the genus Liodessus Guignot, 1953 in Colombia, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Eastern Colombian Páramo Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles are genetically structured, but show signs of hybridization, with description of new species and subspecies (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 31 January 2023

Ecological niche modelling and nDNA sequencing support a new, morphologically cryptic beetle species unveiled by DNA barcoding

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Elevation in tropical sky islands as the common driver in structuring genes and communities of freshwater organisms

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Evolution of life history traits in Asian freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) based on multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis

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Evolution, mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and systematic position of the Macaronesian endemic Hydrotarsus Falkenström (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in October 2003

Exocelina baliem sp. n., the only known pond species of New Guinea Exocelina Broun, 1886 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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Exocelina ransikiensis sp. nov. from the Bird’s Head of New Guinea (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae) ⬇️

FOUR NEW SPECIES OF EPHOLCIS WATERHOUSE, 1875 (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: MELOLONTHINAE: MAECHIDIINI) FROM THE MOLUCCAS, INDONESIA ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

First record of the diving beetle Copelatus chevrolati Aubé, 1838 in Cuba (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published in 2021

First records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) in Taiwan (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydrovatini)

scientific article published in 2021

Five new species of the genus Papuadytes Balke, 1998 from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

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Flight over the Proto-Caribbean seaway: Phylogeny and macroevolution of Neotropical Anaeini leafwing butterflies

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

From field courses to DNA barcoding data release for West Papua - making specimens and identifications from university courses more sustainable.

scientific article

Generic reclassification of species formerly included in <i>Rhantus</i> Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae).

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

High mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence in New Guinea Carabdytes stream beetles and the taxonomist’s dilemma when other evidence is kind of subtle… (and collecting localities are far far away) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 30, 2012

Hydaticus (Prodaticus) hauthi sp. nov., a new diving beetle from the cloud forest in the Cordillera El Sira, Peru (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

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Hydaticus (Prodaticus) kourouensis sp. n., a new diving beetle species from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Hydaticus dintelmanni sp.n. from Papua New Guinea highlands (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

INDOBIOSYS – DNA BARCODING AS A TOOL FOR THE RAPID ASSESSMENT OF HYPERDIVERSE INSECT TAXA IN INDONESIA: A STATUS REPORT ⬇️

scholarly article by Bruno Cancian de Araujo et al published 11 January 2018 in Treubia

Infrequent and unidirectional colonization of hyperdiverse Papuadytes diving beetles in New Caledonia and New Guinea

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Integrative ecological and molecular analysis indicate high diversity and strict elevational separation of canopy beetles in tropical mountain forests

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Integrative taxonomy on the fast track - towards more sustainability in biodiversity research

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Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID

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Introduction of the Exocelina casuarina-group, with a key to its representatives and descriptions of 19 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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Introduction of the Exocelina ekari-group with descriptions of 22 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

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Jumping across Wallace's line: Allodessus Guignot and Limbodessus Guignot revisited (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) based on molecular-phylogenetic and morphological data

scholarly article by Michael Balke et al published May 2004 in Australian Journal of Entomology

Large-scale molecular phylogeny of Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from multiple genes suggests American origin and later Australian radiation

scientific article (publication date: 14 January 2016)

Larvae and a new species of Ancyronyx Erichson, 1847 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Elmidae) from Palawan, Philippines, using DNA sequences for the assignment of the developmental stages ⬇️

scientific article published on October 13, 2011

Larval morphology of four genera of Laccophilinae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) with an analysis of their phylogenetic relationships

scholarly article by Yves Alarie et al published 1 January 2000 in Insect Systematics and Evolution

Limbodessus compactus(Clark): A widespread Austro‐Oriental species, as revealed by its synonymy with two other species of Bidessini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)∗

scientific article published in July 1995

Limbodessus moni sp. nov., a new high altitudinal diving beetle from the Grasberg in West Papua, Indonesia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published on 26 July 2023

Limbodessus skalei sp. nov., a new diving beetle species from the west Papuan Archipelago (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Macroevolution of hyperdiverse flightless beetles reflects the complex geological history of the Sunda Arc

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Mitochondrial cox1 sequence data reliably uncover patterns of insect diversity but suffer from high lineage-idiosyncratic error rates

scientific article (publication date: 28 December 2010)

Molecular phylogeny of Pacific Island Colymbetinae: radiation of New Caledonian and Fijian species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in March 2007

Molecular phylogeny of the highly disjunct cliff water beetles from South Africa and China (Coleoptera: Aspidytidae)

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Molecular phylogeny of the squeak beetles, a family with disjunct Palearctic-Australian range

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Mosaic patterns of diversification dynamics following the colonization of Melanesian islands

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MtDNA phylogeny and biogeography of Copelatinae, a highly diverse group of tropical diving beetles (Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2004

Multiple transgressions of Wallace's Line explain diversity of flightless Trigonopterus weevils on Bali

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2014)

Neptosternus arnecornelii sp. n. from Borneo and notes on other species of the genus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2003

Neptosternus martinae sp.n. ein neuer Schwimmkäfer von der Insel Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2001

New Caledonia's enigmatic terrestrial diving beetle <i>Typhlodessus monteithi</i> is a derived species of <i>Paroster</i>

scientific article published on 24 January 2023

New Guinea highland origin of a widespread arthropod supertramp

scientific article published in April 2009

New Guinean orogenic dynamics and biota evolution revealed using a custom geospatial analysis pipeline

scientific article published on 06 April 2021

New Liodessus species from the high Andes of Peru (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

New records for the Peruvian high-altitude diving beetle Rhantus blancasi Guignot, 1955 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) ⬇️

New records of the diving beetle Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908 in south-western Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)

scientific article published in 2021

Nine new species groups, 15 new species, and one new subspecies of New Guinea diving beetles of the genus Exocelina Broun, 1886 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published on 7 October 2019

Ninety-eight new species of Trigonopterus weevils from Sundaland and the Lesser Sunda Islands

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Notes on Dineutus helleri Ochs, 1925, with new records for the Cyclops Mountains Whirligig Beetle, Dineutus h. stueberi Ochs, 1955 (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Nucleotide substitution rates for the full set of mitochondrial protein-coding genes in Coleoptera

scientific article published on 10 February 2010

One hundred and one new species of Trigonopterus weevils from New Guinea

scholarly article

Papuadessus pakdjoko – a new genus and species of rheobiont diving beetle from New Guinea of potential use for environmental impact assessments (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

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Phylogenetic niche conservatism explains an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in freshwater arthropods

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Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts &amp; Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2023

Phylogenomics of the superfamily Dytiscoidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga) with an evaluation of phylogenetic conflict and systematic error

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Phylogeny and diversification of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scholarly article by Ignacio Ribera published in August 2008

Phylogeography and population genomics of a lotic water beetle across a complex tropical landscape

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Pleistocene climate change promoted rapid diversification of aquatic invertebrates in Southeast Australia

scientific article (publication date: 9 August 2012)

Recognition of a species-poor, geographically restricted but morphologically diverse Cape lineage of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hyphydrini)

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Rediscovery of the New Zealand diving beetle Rhantus plantaris Sharp, and notes on the south west Australian R. simulans Regimbart, with an identification key (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

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Resolving the phylogenetic position of Hygrobiidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) requires objective statistical tests and exhaustive phylogenetic methodology: a response to Cai et al. (2020)

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Review of the genus Sekaliporus Watts, 1997 with description of a new species from northern Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

scientific article (publication date: 2 July 2015)

Revision of Australian Matini diving beetles based on morphological and molecular data (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Matinae), with description of a new species

scientific article

Revision of the Afrotropical-Oriental Rhantus rugulosus-clade (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Revision of the Austrelatus papuensis group with descriptions of 42 new species from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scholarly article published in 2024

Rhantus fengi sp. n. from Xizang, China, and notes on Laccoporus nigritulus (Gschwendtner) (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) ⬇️

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Rhantus souzannaesp.n. from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scholarly article by Michael Balke published in January 1990

Seven new species of Trigonopterus Fauvel (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from the Tanimbar Archipelago

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Seven new species of the Exocelina ekari group from New Guinea central and coastal mountains (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article

Six new species of the genus Exocelina Broun, 1886 from Wano Land, New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article

Species Identification in Malaise Trap Samples by DNA Barcoding Based on NGS Technologies and a Scoring Matrix

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Stream flow alone does not predict population structure of diving beetles across complex tropical landscapes

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

Suggestions for a molecular biodiversity assessment of South East Asian freshwater invertebrates. Lessons from the megadiverse beetles (Coleoptera)

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Systematic placement of the recently discovered beetle family Meruidae (Coleoptera: Dytiscoidea) based on molecular data

article published in 2008

Systematische und faunistische Untersuchungen an paläarktischen, orientalischen und afrotropischen Arten von Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scientific article

Taxonomic revision of Australasian diving beetles in the genus Leiodytes Guignot, 1936 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Taxonomic revision of Australian Copelatus Erichson, 1832 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article

Taxonomic revision of New Guinea diving beetles of the Exocelina danae group, with the description of ten new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2016)

Taxonomy and Biogeography without frontiers - WhatsApp, Facebook and smartphone digital photography let citizen scientists in more remote localities step out of the dark

scientific article

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation ⬇️

journal article from 'PLOS Biology' published in 2018

Tepuidessus grulai sp. nov. from Acopán Tepui in Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini)

scientific article

The Hydroporini (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae : Hydroporinae) of New Guinea: Systematics, distribution and origin of the fauna

scholarly article by Michael Balke published in January 1995

The Mt Halimun-Salak Malaise Trap project - releasing the most species rich DNA Barcode library for Indonesia

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

The effect of geographical scale of sampling on DNA barcoding ⬇️

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The epigean Australasian species of Neobidessodes gen.n. diving beetles a revision integrating morphology, cybertaxonomy, DNA taxonomy and phylogeny (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 November 2009

The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

The genus Neptosternus SHARP 1882 in the Philippines: Taxonomy and Biogeography (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

scholarly article by Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke published 2000 in Linzer Biologische Beiträge

The systematic position of Cladodiopsis Séguy, 1949 and the origin of sexual dimorphism in stalk-eyed flies (Diptera: Diopsidae) inferred from DNA sequence data

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The systematic position of Diopsina Curran, 1928 (Diptera: Diopsidae) inferred from DNA sequence data

The systematic position of Meruidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga) and the phylogeny of the smaller aquatic adephagan beetle families

scholarly article by Rolf G. Beutel published in April 2006

The towering orogeny of New Guinea as a trigger for arthropod megadiversity

scientific article

The “minute diving beetles” of southern Australia - taxonomic revision of Gibbidessus Watts, 1978, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini) ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Three new species of Exocelina Broun, 1886 from the southern slopes of the New Guinea central range, with introduction of the Exocelina skalei group (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article

Transoceanic origin of microendemic and flightless New Caledonian weevils

scientific article

Two new high Andean species of Liodessus diving beetles from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published in 2022

Two new species of Indian diving beetles of the genus Neptosternus SHARP 1882 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

Two new species of Limbodessus diving beetles from New Guinea - short verbal descriptions flanked by online content (digital photography, μCT scans, drawings and DNA sequence data).

scientific article

Two new species of Liodessus Guignot, 1939 diving beetles from Northern Peru (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Two new species of Neptosternus SHARP 1882 from Southern India (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) ⬇️

Two new species of the Exocelina ekari group from New Guinea with strongly modified male antennae (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve the phylogeny of Australasian smurf-weevils

scientific article

Underestimated diversity and range size of diving beetles in tank bromeliads—Coleoptera of ‘hygrofloric’ lifestyle (Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 29 August 2023

Unveiling the diversification dynamics of Australasian predaceous diving beetles in the Cenozoic

scientific article

Wasserkäfer von den Islas Canarias (Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Dryopidae) ⬇️

scientific article

Water beetles of the genusRhantusDejean (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Mascarene Archipelago, with a new species from Mauritius

scholarly article by Michael Balke published in January 1992

†Japanolaccophilus beatificus sp. n. from Baltic amber and a key to the Laccophilinae genera of the World (Coleoptera: Laccophilinae)

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

A species-group key and notes on phylogeny and character evolution in New Guinean Exocelina Broun, 1886 diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 November 2022

Austrelatus gen. nov., a new genus of Australasian diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae), with the discovery of 31 new species from New Guinea

scientific article published in 2023

NextRAD phylogenomics, sanger sequencing and morphological data to establish three new species of New Guinea stream beetles

scientific article published in 2022

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